A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal
Guidelines for the description of rhizobial symbiovars
Authors: Martinez-Romero Esperanza, Peix Alvaro, Hungria Mariangela, Mousavi Seyed Abdollah, Martinez-Romero Julio, Young Peter
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
Publication year: 2024
Journal: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Journal name in source: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Journal acronym: Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
Article number: 006373
Volume: 74
Issue: 5
ISSN: 1466-5026
eISSN: 1466-5034
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006373
Web address : https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006373
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/404705763
Rhizobia are bacteria that form nitrogen-fixing nodules in legume plants. The sets of genes responsible for both nodulation and nitrogen fixation are carried in plasmids or genomic islands that are often mobile. Different strains within a species sometimes have different host specificities, while very similar symbiosis genes may be found in strains of different species. These specificity variants are known as symbiovars, and many of them have been given names, but there are no established guidelines for defining or naming them. Here, we discuss the requirements for guidelines to describe symbiovars, propose a set of guidelines, provide a list of all symbiovars for which descriptions have been published so far, and offer a mechanism to maintain a list in the future.
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